Author: J.A. Mulholland
Publisher: Stamford House Publishing
Keywords: iraqi
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $15.38
ISBN-10: 1904985661
ISBN-13: 9781904985662
Disguised in a burqua to conceal her identity, Jo Huxley takes unofficial time off from her high-powered telecomms career to find a man in fear for his life. The land is harsh, her guides are deadly serious and Jo learns the hard way what a military roadblock can mean. She comes to see the realities of her guides’ lifestyle and the strength they draw from their beliefs. With her hopes dashed by a sudden arrest she must return to London empty-handed, reappraise her lavish London existence and somehow make sense of it. Her plentiful world is threatened by a web of deceit and corruption,
Author: Abbas Shiblak
Publisher: Saqi Books
Keywords: history, jews, iraqi
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0863565042
ISBN-13: 9780863565045
The Jews of Iraq constituted one of the oldest and most deeply rooted Jewish communities in the world. But in the early 1950s most of them left for Israel, under circumstances that remain the subject of heated controversy.Iraqi Jews: A History examines the role of this community, highlighting the critical years of the late 1940s - after the establishment of the state of Israel - when deep rifts began to appear Iraqi society. The sad sequence of events that finally led to the mass exodus of Jews in the 1950s was marked by dishonesty on all sides.An honest, impartial and well-documented account
Author: Sinan Antoon
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: rhapsody, iraqi, jaam
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 087286457X
ISBN-13: 9780872864573
An inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to frightening hallucinations, and what emerges is a portrait of life in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. In the tradition of Kafka’s The Trial or Orwell’s 1984, I’jaam offers insight into life under an oppressive political regime and how that oppression works. This is a stunning debut by a major young Iraqi writer-in-exile. Sinan Antoon has been published in leading international journals and has co-
Author: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: village, iraqi, ethnography, sheik, guests
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0385014856
ISBN-13: 9780385014854
A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea’s two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.
Author: Rivka Goldman
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Keywords: cuisine, iraqi, jewish, nazima, mama
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0781811449
ISBN-13: 9780781811446
Authors:Daniel L. Byman, Kenneth M. Pollack,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: civil, war, iraqi, spillover, apart, containing, things
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0815713797
ISBN-13: 9780815713791
"Iraq is rapidly descending into all-out civil war. Unfortunately, the United States probably will not be able to just walk away from the chaos. Even setting aside the humanitarian nightmare that will ensue, a full-scale civil war would likely consume more than Iraq: historically, such massive conflicts have often had highly deleterious effects on neighboring countries and other outside states. Spillover from an Iraq civil war could be disastrous." Thus begins this sobering analysis of what the near future of Iraq could look like, and what America can do to reduce the threat of wider confli
Author: William Chittick
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: western, spirituality, classics, flashes, iraqi, divine, fakhruddin
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 1982-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 080912372X
ISBN-13: 9780809123728
Fakhruddin ’Iraqi was one of the foremost expositors of Sufi teachings and one of the greatest of Persian poets. Born in 1213 (618) in the city of Hamadan in west Persia, he lived during the revival of Islamic spirituality that was shaped by the writings of Jalaluddin Rumi and Ibn ’Arabi’. ’Iraqi’s masterpiece "Divine Flashes" became a popular and influential text in Persian speaking Islamic lands. The work’s beautiful descriptions of "the mysteries of Union" in the language of love are classic expressions of Sufi love mysticism. In this volume, William
